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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 2008, 7:27 PM CDT for Bandera County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2008, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Bandera County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 2 W Medina, TX | ON HWY 337 ALSO 1.60 IN OF RAIN |
| Mar 17, 7:50 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 Nw Medina, TX |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 180028 TOREWX TXC019-180100- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0002.080318T0027Z-080318T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 727 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BANDERA COUNTY... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT. * AT 723 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDINA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF TARPLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MEDINA BY 800 PM CDT... GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2993 9934 2982 9907 2965 9918 2963 9949 TIME...MOT...LOC 0027Z 232DEG 13KT 2968 9936 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 180040 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 739 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXC019-180100- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080318T0100Z/ BANDERA TX- 739 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL BANDERA COUNTY... AT 736 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MEDINA...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF TARPLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MEDINA BY 800 PM CDT... GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AND RAINFALL RATES OF NEAR TWO INCHES PER HOUR CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2993 9934 2982 9907 2965 9918 2963 9949 TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 228DEG 14KT 2972 9932 $$
000
WWUS54 KEWX 180050
SVSEWX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
749 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
TXC019-180100-
/O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080318T0100Z/
BANDERA TX-
749 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
BANDERA COUNTY...
AT 744 PM CDT...NWS METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO.
THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MEDINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MEDINA BY 800 PM CDT...
GOLF BALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
LAT...LON 2986 9918 2986 9916 2982 9907 2968 9921
2973 9942 2992 9934 2992 9932
TIME...MOT...LOC 0049Z 228DEG 14KT 2976 9929
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 24 min |
| Mar 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera | 23 min |
| Mar 17, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 29 min |
| Mar 17, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Mar 17, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 1:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Mar 18, 1:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 35 min |
| Mar 18, 1:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 23 min |
| Mar 18, 2:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 16 min |
| Mar 18, 2:32 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 12 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 12 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 55 min |
| Mar 18, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt | 67 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.